ROSELYN SANCHEZ ON COVER OF FIRST ¡HOLA! PUERTO RICO

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Puerto Rican actress and model Roselyn Sanchez, hubby Eric Winter and baby daughter Sebella Rose grace the cover of the first edition of HOLA! Puerto Rico, which went on sale on Wednesday on the Caribbean island. In the interview accompanying the photo spread, the actress – known for her roles in U.S. television series such as “Without a Trace” and films like “The Game Plan” and “Rush Hour,” said that her maternity was “the most marvelous in the world.”

“I yearned for it for many years and it was work to conceive her, but she came along when she had to come,” Sanchez said after noting that for a long time she was completely focused on her career until her biological alarm clock went off.”

HOLA! Puerto Rico will maintain its customary international leading article and will add reporting of local interest that reflects the prestige of the personalities and the pulse of the best social and cultural environment of the Caribbean island.

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Spain’s HOLA! launched Hello! in Britain in 1988 and very soon it became quite popular, spurring the rolling out of editions in Russia, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Turkey, Thailand, Mexico, Malaysia, India, Serbia, Morocco, Indonesia, Argentina, Peru, Bulgaria, Ecuador and now Puerto Rico.

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AMERICAN IDOL’S JESSICA SANCHEZ LEAVES JUDGES STUTTERING

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Jessica Sanchez left the judges breathless as she once again showed her powerful pipes and impeccable vocal technique Wednesday night on American Idol. The top seven Idol hopefuls were assigned to sing songs from the last three years.

The part-Mexican, part Filipino singer took a risk with the unfamiliar jazz and soulful song “Stuttering” by Jazmine Sullivan, but the judges gave Sanchez two thumbs up on her rendition.

“That was superb,” said music producer Randy Jackson. “What you did tonight for me is you set the bar really high.”

Jackson added that Sanchez showed “everyone what kind of talent level,” she has and that she has “the control.”

“That was at like the highest degree,” continued Jackson. “You did an amazing job. To me, right now, you slayed that biggest fish of the night.”

Aerosmith rock star Steven Tyler gave Sanchez top-notch reviews, not only on her singing but on her fashion sense as well, comparing her with fellow judge Jennifer Lopez.

“Jessica, every time I hear you sing I forget where I am,” Tyler said. “But America doesn’t forget. You fish slay it every time.”

“You had the nerve to sing a great song and you had the nerve to wear Jennifer’s shoes,” Tyler added excitedly as the audience quickly got to see a close-up of Sanchez’s spiky black heels.

Although Lopez agreed with Tyler and told her she has “great taste,” she compared Sanchez to possibly her biggest competitor—Joshua Ledet.

Guess JLO might not have liked Tyler’s comment after all.

“That was really beautiful,” said Lopez. “What I’d love to see from you, is some almost like Joshua-type performances,” Lopez said bluntly. “You can do it,” she added. “You can show us something we’ve never seen!”

photo source FOX AMERICAN IDOL Sanchez and Ledet performing

Sanchez and Ledet are two of the strongest contestants of season 11 and in the last few weeks have performed multiple medleys together, which have earned the two standing ovations by the judges and the audience.

On Wednesday Sanchez, Ledet and Hollie Cavanagh took on the first American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, and performed her latest hit “What Doesn’t Kill You.” Ledet on the other hand performed a rendition of Puerto Rican crooner Bruno Mars’ song “Runaway Baby,” earning him a standing ovation from the judges. Jackson felt the performance was simply “unbelievable” while Tyler said it was “like a work of art.” For JLO, Ledet was excellent. “A Joshua performance is so dynamic,[and it] takes control of the audience”, Lopez said. “It’s so much energy. It’s not just the vocals that’s what you do.”

ARE YOU A LATINO LEADER WHO WOULD LIKE TO HOST A GRASSROOTS FUNDRAISING PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA?

April 12, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 5 Comments

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In October of 2011, Obama for America launched the Futuro Fund so that supporters like you could make an investment our community’s future and own a piece of this campaign. You have stepped up in a VERY big way. With your leadership and generous contributions we have raised an unprecedented amount and proven that Latinos stand with President Obama.

Over the course of the last few months, we have worked with you to expand our movement. As we launch Latinos for Obama nationwide this month, the Futuro Fund is asking you to take the next step and bring the conversation into your living room.

“On Thursday April 26^th, supporters across the country are hosting Futuro Fund House Parties to talk with their friends and neighbors about what’s at stake for our community between now and November.”

Hosting a house party is as simple as inviting folks to your home, chatting about why you decided to get involved and asking them to step up and own a piece of the campaign too.

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If you don’t normally do this sort of thing, don’t worry. We’ll help you every step of the way and provide you with all of the information and materials to make your party a success. During your party, you and your guests will join campaign leadership for an exciting National Call.

This effort is historic. This campaign will be won or lost in our community and you can make all the difference. Please help us build the best grassroots organization in American history!

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ARE LATINOS THE CONSUMER POWERHOUSE RESHAPING AMERICA?

April 12, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 9 Comments

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This Easter weekend I went to an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called “Foreclosure: Rehousing The American Dream,” a fascinating view into what the future of urban and suburban housing in America could look like. For this exhibit, five architectural teams proposed how they would re-invest the TARP money of 2008 to revitalize foreclosure-ravaged suburbs near five major cities in the United States.

I came away feeling most impressed about the transformational impact that Latinos are already having on this country and wondering if most companies are really prepared for what is around the corner. I was most impressed with how clearly they understood the demographic impact of both the rise of Hispanics as a mega buying force in the home-buyer market.

Photographs by Don Pollard.

While Hispanics were certainly not the focus of this exhibit, their impact on four of the five places featured could not be denied. From Rialto, Calif., to Cicero, Ill., where 88% of the population is Hispanic, Latino attitudes about homeownership were not only prominently featured and discussed by architects, but also helped frame the developing of what the exhibit calls the “national conversation on issues of housing, transportation, and public space.”

When I got home, I remembered that I had recently downloaded the latest report on the State of Hispanic Homeownership, published in March by The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals and found that, in spite of also being hit by the housing crisis between 2007 and 2010, they too were predicting a new Latino housing mega trend.

“Over the next 10 years, Hispanics are expected to account for 40 percent of the estimated 12 million net new households, with minorities comprising 70 percent of total growth,” says Alejandro Becerra, author of the report. Unlike other groups, Latinos have not been big on saving for retirement. This is partly due to a cultural legacy that, hopefully, should change over the next few decades. Our American Dream has always mainly revolved around buying a home and depending on family to take care of us.

“An unrelenting drive to succeed combined with strong family values and larger family sizes fuel their yearning for a place to call home,” says Becerra. “This strong work ethic, often combined with a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, adds up to major consumerism. The Hispanic market made up over 50 percent of real growth in the U.S. consumer economy from 2005 to 2008, with $52 billion in new spending.”

According to the Census, Hispanics are already a significant segment of the workforce. “The role of Latinos in the nation’s labor force in the manufacturing, construction, real estate and service industries is both monumental and crucial. For well over a decade, Hispanics have also had the highest labor force participation in the nation. Currently, 66.7% of all working-age Latinos are employed, nearly three percentage points higher than the rest of the U.S. population,” adds Becerra.

And while many Baby Boomers are expected to age in place, the NAHREP report says that “current mobility rates suggest that 3.8 million baby boomers could downsize over the coming decade, adding further to the demand for compact, lower-cost homes.” As a result, smart start-ups like Boomerator,Southeast Discovery and GetawayStyle are all setting up to cater to the needs of this huge demographic shift.

But I don’t see the same kind of focus and innovation reaching and catering to Hispanics. In spite of the Hispanic demographic tsunami that everyone agrees is upon us, many companies still dedicate only 3% to 5% of their budgets to marketing to Latinos. If that’s your strategy to win in this economy.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: IF WE STOP ATTRACTING IMMIGRANTS WE LOSE ONE OF THE STRONGEST ELEMENTS OF NOT JUST OUR NATIONAL WEALTH BUT OUR NATIONAL SOUL

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photo source: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, spoke to a full house in Page Auditorium Tuesday. Melissa Yeo

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke on a variety of topics in front of a crowd at Duke University Tuesday night, offering a particular criticism of the nation’s stance on immigration.

photo source: AP

“That immigrant culture that has renewed us … has been at the core of our strength,” she said, according to the The Raleigh News & Observer. “I don’t know when immigrants became the enemy.”

Rice has long lamented the Bush administration’s failure to address comprehensive immigration reform during two terms in office, a disappointment that she reportedly reiterated on Tuesday. In 2009, she called the lack of action one of her “biggest regrets.”

In this file photo, then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shake hands with Polish President Lech Kaczynski next to Polish Prime Minister Donal Tusk after signing a deal on basing an American missile shield in Poland, August 20, 2008 in Warsaw.

“America has always been able to attract the most ambitious people who are determined to have a better life,” Rice said during an appearance at Stanford University, where she currently teaches. “If we ever lose that and start to believe that somehow that it is instead a threat to us to have those people come here, we are going to lose one of the strongest elements of not just our national wealth, but of our national soul.”

She has also spoken out on the need to get undocumented immigrants out of the “shadows,” and last year issued a warning about Alabama’s controversial immigration enforcement law.

“I think we need to be really careful about what kind of laws we pass and that, in the effort to get a handle on this problem, we don’t end up making the problem worse,” she told Alabama’s Press-Register, after claiming that inaction at the federal level was catalyzing such measures. “The fact is that, generally speaking, this patchwork approach is not serving us well and we need to find a better solution. State laws are just not going to do it.”

Rice has also recently been included on GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney‘s vice presidential short list, according to some reports, though she has denied that she’d accept the position.

ROSELYN SANCHEZ ON COVER OF FIRST ¡HOLA! PUERTO RICO

“I yearned for it for many years and it was work to conceive her, but she came along when she had to come,” Sanchez said after noting that for a long time she was completely focused on her career until her biological alarm clock went off.”

AMERICAN IDOL’S JESSICA SANCHEZ LEAVES JUDGES STUTTERING

CLICK HERE TO WATCH JESSICA’S PERFORMANCE LIVE AND HEAR WHAT THE JUDGES HAD TO SAY

The part-Mexican, part Filipino singer took a risk with the unfamiliar jazz and soulful song “Stuttering” by Jazmine Sullivan, but the judges gave Sanchez two thumbs up on her rendition.

“That was superb,” said music producer Randy Jackson. “What you did tonight for me is you set the bar really high.”

Jackson added that Sanchez showed “everyone what kind of talent level,” she has and that she has “the control.”

“That was at like the highest degree,” continued Jackson. “You did an amazing job. To me, right now, you slayed that biggest fish of the night.”

Aerosmith rock star Steven Tyler gave Sanchez top-notch reviews, not only on her singing but on her fashion sense as well, comparing her with fellow judge Jennifer Lopez.

“Jessica, every time I hear you sing I forget where I am,” Tyler said. “But America doesn’t forget. You fish slay it every time.”

“You had the nerve to sing a great song and you had the nerve to wear Jennifer’s shoes,” Tyler added excitedly as the audience quickly got to see a close-up of Sanchez’s spiky black heels.

Although Lopez agreed with Tyler and told her she has “great taste,” she compared Sanchez to possibly her biggest competitor—Joshua Ledet.

“That was really beautiful,” said Lopez. “What I’d love to see from you, is some almost like Joshua-type performances,” Lopez said bluntly. “You can do it,” she added. “You can show us something we’ve never seen!”

ARE YOU A LATINO LEADER WHO WOULD LIKE TO HOST A GRASSROOTS FUNDRAISING PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA?

“On Thursday April 26^th, supporters across the country are hosting Futuro Fund House Parties to talk with their friends and neighbors about what’s at stake for our community between now and November.”

As a leader of the Futuro Fund, can you host a grassroots fundraising party on Thursday April 26^th? Sign up here to get started.

Sign up today to host a grassroots fundraising party.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: IF WE STOP ATTRACTING IMMIGRANTS WE LOSE ONE OF THE STRONGEST ELEMENTS OF NOT JUST OUR NATIONAL WEALTH BUT OUR NATIONAL SOUL

“That immigrant culture that has renewed us … has been at the core of our strength,” she said, according to the The Raleigh News & Observer. “I don’t know when immigrants became the enemy.”

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ROSELYN SANCHEZ ON COVER OF FIRST ¡HOLA! PUERTO RICO

“I yearned for it for many years and it was work to conceive her, but she came along when she had to come,” Sanchez said after noting that for a long time she was completely focused on her career until her biological alarm clock went off.”

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The part-Mexican, part Filipino singer took a risk with the unfamiliar jazz and soulful song “Stuttering” by Jazmine Sullivan, but the judges gave Sanchez two thumbs up on her rendition.

“That was superb,” said music producer Randy Jackson. “What you did tonight for me is you set the bar really high.”

Jackson added that Sanchez showed “everyone what kind of talent level,” she has and that she has “the control.”

“That was at like the highest degree,” continued Jackson. “You did an amazing job. To me, right now, you slayed that biggest fish of the night.”

Aerosmith rock star Steven Tyler gave Sanchez top-notch reviews, not only on her singing but on her fashion sense as well, comparing her with fellow judge Jennifer Lopez.

“Jessica, every time I hear you sing I forget where I am,” Tyler said. “But America doesn’t forget. You fish slay it every time.”

“You had the nerve to sing a great song and you had the nerve to wear Jennifer’s shoes,” Tyler added excitedly as the audience quickly got to see a close-up of Sanchez’s spiky black heels.

Although Lopez agreed with Tyler and told her she has “great taste,” she compared Sanchez to possibly her biggest competitor—Joshua Ledet.

“That was really beautiful,” said Lopez. “What I’d love to see from you, is some almost like Joshua-type performances,” Lopez said bluntly. “You can do it,” she added. “You can show us something we’ve never seen!”

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“On Thursday April 26th, supporters across the country are hosting Futuro Fund House Parties to talk with their friends and neighbors about what’s at stake for our community between now and November.”

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CONDOLEEZZA RICE: IF WE STOP ATTRACTING IMMIGRANTS WE LOSE ONE OF THE STRONGEST ELEMENTS OF NOT JUST OUR NATIONAL WEALTH BUT OUR NATIONAL SOUL

“That immigrant culture that has renewed us … has been at the core of our strength,” she said, according to the The Raleigh News & Observer. “I don’t know when immigrants became the enemy.”

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“On Thursday April 26^th, supporters across the country are hosting Futuro Fund House Parties to talk with their friends and neighbors about what’s at stake for our community between now and November.”

As a leader of the Futuro Fund, can you host a grassroots fundraising party on Thursday April 26^th? Sign up here to get started.